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[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

and have transcripts.

Woah, they have transcripts? Huh. This changes a lot. I'll read through one next time I'm free.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It depends on several things.

1) YouTube often offers auto-transcripts but they often flub words (ie. foreign names and of course uncommon conversations on narrow topics like Zionism, politics, etc. or discussions on aircraft engineering or archaeology where the A.I. tries to interpret the sounds as common words within common contexts rather than considering the context and the topic at hand).

2) YouTube can take an existing subtitle translation and auto-translate it for you, again with issues.

3) YouTube often provides CC closed captioning for Deaf people. These are often provided by the source.

4) YouTube users can add captioning contributions, for better or worse, including in other languages. I can only assume most would be better than the auto-generated captioning. I have yet to hear of anyone actually abusing the function, but it could be amusing to put alternative words in people's mouths if done well.

5) Off YouTube people can provide self-made transcripts. For example, James Corbett of the Corbett Report does not do transcripts for every one of his shows but he DOES provide every word perfectly transcribed for all of his big important documentaries WITH links and citations. I recommend you start with the list of documentaries on this page: https://infogalactic.com/info/James_Corbett_(journalist)

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

YouTube users can add captioning contributions, for better or worse,

They disabled the community ones a few months ago, and their AI is bad, and I haven't yet found a way to download the transcript (though it's probably easy, and tbh I haven't tried).

I will look into point 5, though. ☺

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)